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A 5-year-old boy weighing 20 kg is admitted with bacterial meningitis. He is alert, his peripheries are warm with capillary refill under two seconds, and his mu…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 3-year-old girl has had fever and cough for two days. She is alert, sitting up and drinking, and her mother has a car and lives ten minutes from the hospital.…
Paediatrics · Clinical rotations · common
A 19-year-old man is thrown from his motorcycle at highway speed. On arrival he is alert and complains only of neck pain. His blood pressure is 78/44 mmHg and h…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · common
A 19-year-old woman walks into a metropolitan emergency department with her sister ninety minutes after swallowing thirty modified-release paracetamol tablets.…
Acute Care · Clinical rotations · middle twist
A 63-year-old man with two hours of chest pain has 3 mm of ST elevation in leads II, III and aVF. He is alert but cold and clammy. Pulse is 52 beats per minute…
Acute Care · Pre-internship · middle twist
A 46-year-old man attends the clinic nine months after cardiac transplantation. He feels well, has no chest pain and walks four kilometres most days. He takes n…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man presents with two hours of palpitations. He is alert, has no chest pain, and his blood pressure is 124/76 mmHg. The radial pulse is regular at…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 22-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department 30 minutes after an argument at home, breathing rapidly and deeply. She complains of tingling around…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 43-year-old man is brought in 18 hours after a meal that included home-bottled vegetables. Over the past six hours his eyelids have drooped, his vision has do…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man is freed after six hours trapped beneath a collapsed brick wall. He is alert, and both thighs are swollen and tender. He reports tingling in b…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 46-year-old labourer is freed after six hours trapped beneath a collapsed brick wall. Both thighs are tense, swollen and tender, and he cannot move his toes.…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 34-year-old man is seen in the medical tent 20 minutes after finishing a marathon run on a cool, overcast morning. He drank water at every drink station. He h…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 22-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department after 30 minutes of rapid, deep breathing that began during an argument. She reports tingling around…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man has passed up to twelve watery stools a day for five days after returning from a trek in Nepal. He is thirsty and weak. His pulse is 118/min a…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 58-year-old man has vomited large volumes each day for nine days, bringing up food eaten the day before. The vomitus contains no bile. He has lost 5 kg, his m…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 4-year-old girl has had puffy eyelids each morning for two weeks and now has swollen legs and a distended abdomen. Her blood pressure is 96/58 mmHg. Urine tes…
Physiology · Foundations · common
A 19-day-old boy has vomited after most feeds for the past week. He is 9 per cent below his birth weight, lethargic, with dry mucous membranes and cool peripher…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 32-year-old woman has passed large volumes of pale urine for four months and drinks about eight litres of water each day, having decided this would improve he…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 7-year-old boy has passed large volumes of urine and craved salty food since infancy, and he is small for his age. His blood pressure is 92/56 mmHg and he has…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist
A 24-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after a motorcycle crash. He has an unstable pelvic fracture and has lost an estimated 1500 mL of blood…
Physiology · Foundations · middle twist